Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.

When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was connected to a very popular movement of artists and intellectuals at that time towards anti fascism, and an alliance with the union movement.

[Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.

That's why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse [Dalton] Trumbo of being a hypocrite.

I just always look for stuff that has a character-driven thing.

Hedda's Hopper attitude was 'once a Commie, always a Commie.'